The WORST episodes of Princess Tutu

#1 - Crime and Punishment - Carmen Aragonaise (1)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/27/2002

#2 - The Spinners - Lieder ohne Worte (2)

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2003

#3 - Crown of Stone - Das große Tor von Kiew (2)

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/28/2003

#4 - Marionettes - Ruslan und Ludmilla (2)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/11/2003

#5 - The Prince and the Raven - Danse Macabre (2)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/25/2003

#6 - The Dying Swan - Romeo und Julia (2)

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/9/2003

#7 - Finale - Der Nußknacker

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/23/2003

The Raven attacks Mytho. Duck tries to help, but she's helpless. Fakir seems only capable of writing what is happening. Mytho resolves to shatter his heart once more.

#8 - Monster Raven - Blumenwalzer (1)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2002

#9 - Coppelia (1)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/2002

#10 - Prayers of a Maiden - Gebet einer Jungfrau (1)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2002

#11 - A Forgotten Story - Die verkaufte Braut (2)

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/28/2003

#12 - Wandering Knight - Egmont Ouvertüre (1)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/24/2003

#13 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ein Sommernachtstraum (1)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/2003

#14 - A Forgotten Story - Die verkaufte Braut (1)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2003

#15 - The Spinners - Lieder ohne Worte (1)

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/2003

#16 - Crown of Stone - Das große Tor von Kiew (1)

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/2003

#17 - Marionettes - Ruslan und Ludmilla (1)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/2003

#18 - The Prince and the Raven - Danse Macabre (1)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/18/2003

#19 - The Dying Swan - Romeo und Julia (1)

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/2/2003

#20 - La Sylphide

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/2002

Mytho, inspired by an overheard conversation between Duck and her two friends, decides to give a present to Princess Tutu to express his feelings and to find out how she feels. He goes out to town with Rue, where they find Edel selling gems. Edel gives Mytho a gem called Love, but warns him that although beautiful, it can be dangerous and delicate. Rue, aware of the gem's intended recipient, is jealous and scuffs it, then tells Mytho she will shine it and make it even more beautiful. Instead, she curses the gem with hatred and spells a raven's feather inside before giving it back to Mytho. Mytho gives it to Princess Tutu, who discovers the heart shard of love is inside. She is about to return it when Kraehe's hatred manifests and binds her. Kraehe appears and rips the half-returned heart shard out of Mytho's chest.

#21 - Pieces of the Heart - Schwanensee: Scène finale

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/23/2002

The next day, Duck wakes up to realize that she is just a duck. Drosselmeyer appears to tell her that she is also the legendary Princess Tutu; her task is to return the pieces of heart to the Prince, Mytho. Longing to one day see Mytho smile, she decides to take up the challenge. Drosselmeyer gives back the pendant that changes her into a girl, as well as Princess Tutu. An Anteater-girl, who is bitter and jealous of Rue for her superior dancing skills, sets her eyes on Mytho. She and Mytho have a dance-off with Rue. Rue chooses Duck as her partner and they win. Duck discovers that the anteater is being influenced by a shard of Mytho's heart. She transforms into Princess Tutu and convinces the heart shard to return to him. Mytho regains a feeling, which worries Fakir.

#22 - A Princess's Oath - Dornröschen: Panorama

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/30/2002

Duck learns about the book The Prince and the Raven. She discovers that its author is Drosselmeyer, and that he died a long time ago. She bumps into Mytho, who is retrieving water for Rue, while he and Rue were on a picnic. Duck uses up the water to clean a cut Mytho got, and while on a search for more water, the two stumble upon a restaurant. Inside, a woman, Ebine, serves them cold food and Duck discovers that she has another piece of Mytho’s heart: the feeling of loneliness. She retrieves it and afterwards Rue (and Fakir, who had been looking for him) discuss Princess Tutu, and her fate. The audience learns that if Princess Tutu confesses her love to the Prince, she will turn into a speck of light.

#23 - Giselle

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/6/2002

Duck contemplates who she is as Princess Tutu. Mytho notes that someone is calling him, and empathizes with the feeling that that someone wants to meet someone, recognizing the feeling to be loneliness. Fakir tries to convince Mytho that he does not need a heart; meanwhile, Duck gets chastised for interrupting Rue’s practice rehearsal. Duck vows to return Mytho’s heart to him, while denying that she loves him. Later, Rue reiterates Fakir’s words to Mytho, telling him that he loves her, and that is all he needs to know. Fakir tries to find out why Mytho is regaining his feelings. Mytho follows the aforementioned call and disappears. Duck and Rue go looking for him. They run into Edel, who tells them a story and directs them in the right direction, which enables them to find Mytho. He has found the ghost Giselle, who has been calling to him, and is offered a rosemary flower, which will allow Giselle to take him with her to the land of the dead. Rue tries to save him by dancing with Giselle, but fails. When Rue falls, Duck hides and transforms into Princess Tutu. Tutu reveals herself to Rue and dances with Giselle. She successfully gains the feeling of sadness from Giselle and gives it to Mytho. Drosselmeyer notes that the feelings returned to the Prince, thus far, are unhappy ones, and asks Tutu, “is this how you will restore happiness to the Prince?”

#24 - On the Eve of the Fire Festival - Bilder einer Ausstellung: Die Katakomben

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/13/2002

Rue looks through The Prince and the Raven, and is confronted by Fakir. She hints that Princess Tutu may be real. Meanwhile, Duck learns about the Fire Festival. Duck has been charged with cleaning the room of the advanced class. She arrives at the classroom and finds Mytho, dressed in Festival garb, awaiting Rue to practice together. Since she is absent, he decides to dance with Duck instead, to her joy. Fakir sees the two and confronts Mytho, telling him to just listen to him. The two leave and Rue appears. The two talk for a few moments, and Duck goes out in search of Mytho. As punishment for not listening to him, Fakir locks Mytho in a closet. Outraged, Duck tries to open the locked door, and lets slip that she knows that Mytho is regaining the pieces of his heart. Fakir becomes suspicious and questions her. Duck discovers that both Rue and Fakir know about Mytho being the Prince from the story. Fakir aggressively tells Duck that Mytho does not need a heart. In the closet, Mytho hears a voice talking to him from a strange glowing panel in the floor. Edel appears once more, and points out an open window that Duck can go through. She does and she falls onto the glowing panel, which opens and causes her to tumble down into some catacombs. She goes in search of Mytho, and a voice begins telling her riddles. She gets them all wrong, but finds the room Mytho is in, regardless, and gets locked in the room. She transforms into Princess Tutu, and finally gets that the answer to the riddles, revealing the voice as a lamp with a piece of heart. Tutu dances while the lamp spotlights her. The lamp reveals that she once shone for people, but was cast aside. She now wants Mytho so that she can shine for him. Tutu talks the lamp into releasing Mytho, and promises to take the lamp with her. Mytho’s feeling of affection is returned to him. Rue, waiting for Mytho at the plaza even after the festival ends, finally turns to leave but finds Mytho in her path. They dance while Duck

#25 - Aurora Dreaming - Dornröschen: Prolog

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/20/2002

A traveling ballet troupe comes into town and Duck's whole class gets time off to go and see the troupe practice. Duck sees that a heart shard has taken possession of the lead in the upcoming Sleeping Beauty show, but it leaves when the void in her heart is filled when the lead's husband encourages and supports her. Duck chases after the shard and asks it to return to Mytho, but it instead attacks her with a sword. Despite its obvious reluctance, Duck catches it and returns it to Mytho. The shard turns out to be the feeling of fear and uncertainty, and once it is returned Mytho becomes afraid of Princess Tutu. Duck is shocked and dismayed that her attempt to help Mytho has ended with him in pain.